She does not do housework, does not understand life, is a "incompetent" wife; she cold down daughter, hard-hearted leave home, is a "not qualified" mother; she is silent and low-key, refuses to interview, is a" unsympathetic" old lady. But today, people all over china should salute her. no, the whole world should applaud her. And here she is, 88 years old, quietly contemplating the next amazing project that could change the world! She's, uh, tu You You was born in 1930 in ningbo, zhejiang province, where she was born to her parents, all of whom were local celebrities. she was the only daughter of her family, and was adored. At that time, my father had read a poem by xiaoya: "yo yo deer, food wild wormwood" to read the language, she called her name: . But, from then on, a word of wisdom, her life with the "artemisia" to tie the knot.
The young tu yo-yo and her mother she has learned from a young age, the world is stable, is the teacher in the eyes of good students and good students, is the parents'good daughter, but such a calm day, at the age of 16, interrupted. That year, she suffered from tuberculosis and had to suspend her education for two years. It was the experience of this illness that made her rethink the meaning of life, the seeds of medicine in her heart began to sprout.
In 1951, after her admission to peking university, she dutifully chose medicine, a rather dismal discipline in medicine at the time, but she stuck to her choice and graduated with honors, has qualified to work at the chinese academy of chinese medicine.
Who would have thought that this quiet little girl, wearing a peking university student who wore the university's emblem in 1952, would have found artemisinin, a pioneering method for malaria treatment around the world, more than 50 years later. For thousands of years, malaria has been a nightmare for human life, with more than 1 million deaths a year in africa alone. And it was her discovery that saved hundreds of millions of lives around the world!When it comes to artemisinin, it starts with the vietnam war. back in 1967, during the american-vietnamese war, malaria spread around the world, and the number of soldiers killed by malaria was five times as deadly as the war itself. The malaria-plagued vietnam army turned to china, where Mao Zedong personally gave instructions to more than 500 scientists across the country to jointly develop new anti-malarial drugs, and she was one of them.
In 1955, tu yo entered the institute of traditional chinese medicine at the chinese academy of traditional chinese medicine in the ministry of health. the chinese medical equipment and level was very backward, there was no protective equipment, no ventilation equipment, everyone wore a gauze mask at most, many drug trials are difficult to conduct. In the face of china's technological backwardness and the pressure of failure on the part of the united states, many of them said in a defiant tone: none of them can do it, our equipment is not advanced at all, how can we do that At the age of 39, she was put in danger and said firmly, "no can do not, only ken does not insist on the problem. " . So she led the "523" research team, officially embarked on a new drug development path. She led the way through a three-month tour of famous doctors throughout the country, collecting more than 640 chinese herbs and recipes for treating malaria, and constantly trying to sift through the extraction and separation of traditional chinese herbs. Through the screening of more than 200 herbs and 380 extracts, artemisia annua was identified as a valuable anti-malarial drug. However, the effective components of artemisia annua were destroyed by high temperature during high temperature extraction, which resulted in the experiment not being good.
When artemisinin samples, artemisinin and artemisinin were in short supply, she was immediately inspired by a phrase from the back-up cul-de-sac of ancient chinese books, "once the tarragon is shaken, the water is lifted, the juice is extracted, and it is taken as follows: soak the tarragon with water first, then wrap it in cloth and squeeze out the juice. Does this mean that the active ingredient in artemisia tarragon is high temperature So she came up with a way to extract the ether at low temperature. But ether is a very harmful chemical! She was the first to put on a mask and test the poison on her body. she found seven large water tanks as extraction vessels. she was able to get on the horse, fill it with ether, and extract it at low temperature with her colleagues. "there was a very pungent smell of ether in the lab and in the hallway, " said study group member jiang yanliang, who worked long hours in this environment, with symptoms such as nosebleeds and skin irritations in addition to dizziness. " 
In february 1985, tu-yo finally succeeded in the experiment after more than 190 repeated failures! But she and her co-workers contracted hepatitis because they inhaled too much ether. Li tingzhao, her old companion, said: "at that time, she had only the tarragon in her mind, and she spent all her days away from home, in the laboratory, in the dark and in the daytime, and came home smelling of alcohol. "i was in pain and she was supportive of her, the "523" team has acquired extracts of artemether, the most critical step in artemisinin research. But to ensure the safety of the drug, she tried again, despite her family's objections, to risk her life and drink the extract of the tarragon. And then, the experiment was successful, and the arteannuin was born, and her body was about to be destroyed !
In october 1982, tu participated in the national science and technology award conference to receive the certificate but she said: this venture is valuable In october 1981, according to the world health organization (WHO) , over the past few decades, artemisinin has treated more than 200 million people worldwide and saved more than one million lives. The advent of artemisinin has significantly reduced the mortality rate of malaria, which has made an incalculable contribution to the health and health of all human beings and the sick. And she paid for it with all her youth, and the unredeemable cost of bone and flesh. In order to complete her research, she and her husband worked long hours, had to endure pain, sent their eldest daughter, who was under four, to the nursery nursery, and returned her youngest daughter, who was under age, to her parents in ningbo. And then, every three or four years, the mothers and daughters meet! Such a long separation of the bone and flesh, the blood thicker than the daughter, the impression of mother, so much so that the eldest daughter, to this day, would not call her a "mother" !
From left to right in 1996, Li Jun, Tu Youyou, li tingzhao, and his eldest daughter Li Min, who is a scientist and a nobel laureate for saving millions of lives. but she is also an ordinary mother, and she yearns for a daughter who can take her knee. But for the study of artemisinin, for her country's scientific career, she was absent from her daughter's growth and was no longer a "qualified" mother ! her artemisinin has saved thousands of families, but it has not made up for years of separation and damage to her beloved daughter . in the eyes of the world, she is a great, selfless scientist But in the eyes of her daughter, neither her devotion nor her sacrifice can offset the "mother" that they longed for as a child !
In the face of her daughter's strange and bitter eyes, her heart was cut like a knife. But she resisted the heartache and the tears and went back to the lab because she said: "i don't fully understand the whole story of the tarragon, " she said, as she continued her studies of artemisinin. It is this persistence and conviction that she has never stopped pursuing scientific research, she has given up the stability of the life, also abandoned the family to make up and accompany, still lead the team to strive in the first line of research and development of new drugs, she said, "artemisinin needs to be better for people. " . It was a great scientist who was humbled by the fact that she won the american rusk prize in 2011, the year before the nobel prize, for the first time in 65 years to a chinese scientist.
Nobel's science prize was awarded to a chinese scientist who won the Nobel science prize in october 2015 when she discovered artemisinin, which effectively reduces deaths in malaria patients. She didn't know it until more than an hour later, when news of her nobel win rocked the country and spread through the streets, she was more interested in fighting for her country's glory than confirming her award on television news.
At the nobel prize presentation ceremony in stockholm, sweden, on december 10,2015And get a nobel prize
The Nobel medal is engraved with the name of tu (bottom right) 
When Tu Youyou won her nobel prize in sweden, it was assumed that her status as the first local nobel laureate, coupled with her mid-80s, must have taken the VIP aisle of the airport, but reporters and leaders waited in the Airport lounge until the plane took off and did not see her face, so she was afraid of such a fanfare, so she finished the formalities early, quietly from the ordinary passage of the plane. She received more than $3 million in a nobel prize, all donated to the scientific work of young people. As the first native chinese scientist to win the nobel prize, and the first chinese scientist to win Nobel's prize in physiology and medicine, has been a recluse for years, for the vast majority of chinese, she's still a "familiar stranger. " At the beginning of 2017, when she won the national top science prize, she was presented with a prize by the supreme leader, who was always low key and unwilling to see the media, but when the awards were over, when a large number of media journalists were ready to interview her collectively, but she declined to visit again.
Once she was recommended for an influential award in the field of chinese medicine, but she declined: "i'm too old to recommend anything to a young person. " she is not sociable and does not like to be seen, "i'm not used to this sort of thing. let's stick to the arteannuin study. " she is such an old lady who seems "unsympathetic" . the award, the honor, in her eyes, is nothing more than a passing glance, "i have a lot of work to do" , she said most of the sentence.
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